Published
monthly during the school year by the Alumni of the Potsdam Normal School

Alumni
Editor-in-Chief – Frank L. Cubley, ’92

Corresponding
Editor -- Dr. F. T. Swan, ‘93

Alumni News
Editor – Miss Jennie Johnson

Correspondence:

Class
Letters:

Class of
1873

36 Spring
Street, NorwoodNY, Nov 9, 1915

My dear Mr.
Swan:

Your appeal
to the class of ’73 with questions to be answered reached me in my home in Norwood, where I have lived for over forty
years, and I think as happily as the majority of people. I have my husband,
one daughter and one granddaughter, who help greatly to make life happy. My
work is the usual kind of any housewife. I have been a subscriber to the
Normal Magazine from the first, and look forward to its arrival every month and
enjoy it greatly; although I am such a “way back”, there are few familiar
names. Our class of eight members remained unbroken until this summer, when
our hearts were greatly saddened by the going away of one of our best loved
members, Charlie Townsend, whose memory and influence will never be
forgotten. There is sadness as well as gladness in the thought of the old Normal being torn down, as this means an
advance and improvement, and of course, that is what the Normalites are all
striving for. With a greeting and best wishes to my (shall I say old)
classmates and all others of our dear Alma Mater,

Sincerely
yours,

Annie
Weston Ashley

Class of 73

Class of
1875

2325
Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, Cal., Dec
13, 1915

Dear Class
of 1875:

I have for
so many years lived at this western edge of the world that I am entirely out of
touch with the members of our class. It will be a pleasure for me to hear of
the welfare and whereabouts of those still living.

I have for
many years been a widow and for the past nine have resided in Berkeley, Cal,, where, at my home at 2325 Piedmont Avenue, I should be glad to welcome members of the class of 1875. I suppose
the idea of these letters is for each to tell something of herself.

After our
graduation, Dr. McVicar sent me to teach in a newly established Normal school
at Leavenworth, Kansas. The Legislature closed the school at the end of the year
and I then went to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where the State Normal School was to be
opened, and was the only woman teacher there for two years, when I was offered
a position in the State Normal School at San Jose, Cal., where I went in the
fall of 1878 and where I taught three years until my marriage.

I have never
lost my teacher’s enthusiasm, as I am sure my children and grandchildren will
testify. Since I have visited many lands, I sometimes think it would be
delightful to be a teacher of Geography.

I have
traveled much, have seen our own continent from Alaska to Florida, and from Quebec to Lower California. After our severe earthquake in 1906, with my son and
daughter I spent a year in foreign travel , first visiting Europe and then circling the globe, making
a delightful tour of Oriental countries, returning across the Pacific.

In 1910-11
I spent another year in Europe traveling and studying. Of all the
countries visited I have perhaps felt the deepest human interest in the people
and the problems of India, but I have found Italy most delightful in its art and
history of art.

I have been
twice in Potsdam since our graduation—once in 1889
and again with my daughter in 1904. Since then I have heard nothing of the
changes that have taken place.

With
kindest remembrances to all who remember me, I beg to subscribe myself,

Frances
Webster Fish (Mrs. Lafayette I. Fish)

2102 Second
Avenue So., Minneapolis, Minn., Dec
16, 1915

Dear Sir:

Your card
is at hand asking if I will not send greetings to my classmates of ’75. That I
shall be glad to do, and more, I want to send greetings also to all the classes
that have been since I was a girl in school in Potsdam. I recall the day when I graduated and the loads of
flowers we received as tributes of devotion from our friends. One of the most
beautiful among all my gifts was the great armful of roses which your father
sent me because my father was employed by him.

I was in Potsdam last year for half a day, but it
was Sunday, so all I could see were the buildings and grounds. When I come
again probably I shall not recognize the buildings even, as I understand many
changes are to be made. Others live in my old home – others occupy my old
place. I wish them well, all of them. We are fairly glad to know we once had
a place there. For myself you may say that I am still living in the home I
have had here for nearly thirty years. Two of my girls are married. One is Dr.
Canfield’s wife at Willmar, Minn., and has twin boys so alike you can not tell them apart and
the other is Mrs. Philip Rust of New York City. The third will locate soon, I do not know where. You can
cut out all of this which you do not care to use for your Magazine. Ever and
always I shall be glad to see and hear of any, and from any, whose lives have
one chapter of “Potsdam Normal”, for it is sure to have been a pleasant and
helpful chapter.

Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to all, including the editor.

Mrs. J.
G. Palmer (Harriet E. Hamblin)

2102 2d Ave
So., Minneapolis, Minn.

N.W. Phone
South 639S

To the
class of ’75:

“Nothing
should be done hastily but the killing of fleas,” wrote one of my classmates, Mahlon
Wagnor, in my autograph album. If I send Christmas greetings for the next
Normal Magazine, as requested, I shall need to disobey that proverb. I hope
you may understand there is still a warm place in my heart for all of the Class
of ’75. ‘It’s a long way’ – back over the forty years to that one of
’75, yet I still remember you with interest, and am often reminded of many
pleasant, sometimes unpleasant, happenings.

Only about
six of the class I have ever met. Miss Francis Farmer and I found each
other on a street car in this city, little over a year ago, and since then have
privileged to talk over not only our class, but many Potsdam Normalites, and
may I add, it was always to the credit of each, and above all, credit to our
Alma Mater – The Potsdam Normal School.

May this
Christmas season bring to you the real Christmas spirit, and may the coming
year have in store for you all, some of its richest and choicest blessings is
the sincere wish of your former classmate.

Nettie
Dayton Dawley (Mrs.
W. W. Dawley, Class of ’75)

512 Walnut
Ave, Syracuse, N.Y.

December
11, 1915

Correspondence
–

Sunny
Crest, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Cal., Jan 4, 1915 (sic)

Dear Potsdam Normalites:

It would
seem unfortunate if no chronicle of the doings of the California branch of the Alumni during the
eventful year of 1915 should appear in the columns of our magazine, so here is
a little resume.

You had a
full account of the banquet held Jan 15, at which Mrs. Warren Mann was
the guest of honor. Throughout the year it has been alluded to as the best
yet, and Mrs. Mann’s address as too good to have missed. Before she
started eastward there was another large and happy gathering at the beautiful
new home of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Reed on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood. July 9th we met in Westlake park for our annual picnic. Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Stowell, Miss Sue Bidwell, Mr. and Mrs. (Sisson) Safford, and Miss
Helen were some of the visitors present. August 7th a large
company gathered for luncheon at Christopher’s in honor of the Misses Kellas.
As the writer was in San
Francisco at the
time, she can not give her personal experience but was told the Normal spirits ran even higher than the
mercury which was seeing what it could do about that time. When she asked if
the president of the Aristocratic Emma Willard School and the preceptress of
our Alma Mater laid aside their dignity, the reply was, “Not quite—but they
looked as if they wanted to”. Other visiting alumni were: Dr. Frank Ballou
and Mrs. Ballou, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stowell. Mrs. J. W. Miller and
daughter, Marjorie, of Spokane, were
also present. Mrs. Miller was visiting her sisters, Mrs. Stowell and
Mrs. Kellogg. Miss Marjorie is attending the University of Southern California and is living with the Stowells.

Later in
the year, informal afternoons were enjoyed at Dr. Stowell’s with the
worthy editor of this magazine, his wife and daughter as the center of attraction,
and at Mrs. Laverty’s when the Kieffer’s were visiting her.

The more
formal affair that was planned for August in the Northern district was
abandoned as so few responded, but a happy evening was spent with Mrs. Lura
Jones Kieffer at the Uplands, Berkeley, when Dr. and Mrs. Stowell, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Stowell, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Story and Miss Ethel, and
the Reed family who were her house guest, were present. Other “Normal” guests of the Kieffers
during the summer were Miss Julie Walling, Miss Sue Bidwell, and the Laverty
family.

We
Californians have often told you that the latchstring was out and this year we
were rewarded by having it pulled, and though some of you only reached some of
us over the telephone wire, we were thankful for that connection, but the
fireside visit in our own home with the Cubley’s and the happy evening
with Louise Walling Brown and her husband, when we found that twenty-two
years separation had not lessened our friendship, will always be among
brightest memories of the many unusual meetings of 1915.

Just the
next day after several of us had been together in our home, Mrs. Stowell, phoned
me that they had found the bungalow for which they were looking and had
purchased it. They were moved before Christmas to 2702 Hobart Boulevard. I haven’t been out there yet, but
when I tell you that they are going to entertain the University Faculty and
their wives next Friday evening, about one hundred in all, you will judge that
their rooms are spacious and their hearts as large as ever.

Our banquet
arrangements for this winter are not completed but we have seen each other
often enough this year, so we ought to need no introductions when we do meet.
We shall miss the bright smile and cheery greetings of Mary Woodworth, but
the lesson of her patient, silent enduring of physical suffering will not be
forgotten.

If some
read this and say, “Why, we were in California! We’ll have to ask you to write an account of your trip for you forgot
to pull our latchstring. We wish more of you had come, but there are some
attractions left and we’ll hope to see you yet.

Most
sincerely,

Fannie Burnap
Laverty

Normal
Magazine Notes:

Miss Eva
Bennett of New York City was the guest of Miss Edith
Austin during the holidays.

Miss
Margaret Howe of Flushing, Long Island, has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Hand of
Potsdam.

Miss
Marguerite Gurley
of Ithaca was a guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William E. Gurley in Bay Street for the holidays.

Miss
Helen Dewey is
teaching in Mannsville, N.Y.

Miss
Marjorie Hawley is
very pleasantly located in Schenectady,
and Miss Louise Hall in Cedarhurst, Long Island.

Mr. Roy
J. Waite, who is
teaching at a military school at Poughkeepsie, spent the holidays at his home in Potsdam.

Miss
Gladys Hawkins, a
new member of the music faculty of the Kansas State Normal, appeared in a joint
recital with George Keenan, violinist, in Albert Taylor Hall Tuesday
evening, October 19. Miss Hawkin’s playing is virile and convincing and
awakens in the listener the feeling which Miss Hawkin’s possesses in so
marked a degree, that of aliveness. We have seldom heard a young player who
makes so direct an appeal or who’s work bears such an individual impress;
though Miss Hawkin’s played before a school audience composed largely of
farmer boys and girls, she never once descended to the pianists trick of
playing clap-trap bric-a-brac sort of pieces to carry her audience. She held
to her high ideals and played the best in pianoforte literature, for Miss
Hawkins’ slogan is “Never Stoop to your Audience.” – Music News, Chicago.

Congressman
Bertrand H. Snell left
Monday, Jan 3d, for Washington, Where he will go to represent the
Thirty-first district with the opening of Congress next Monday. Mr. Snell
will have apartments at the Shoreham. He will occupy room 350 in the office
building for the House of Representatives. Eight of his former classmates at AmherstCollege, residing at different places throughout the country, have
signified their intention of seeing him sworn into office. Mr. Snell is
the first member of his class, 1894, to go to Congress.

Miss Anner
Everett, who has
been supervising music in the Johnstown, N.Y. schools, has been confined to her home during the
vacation because of illness. Miss Everett will take a month’s leave of
absence in order to recuperate.

Stanley
H. Sisson left last
week for New York City where he will meet the Cornell Glee
Club, which gives its first concert at the Waldorf Astoria. The club will then
make a long trip, taking in Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cleveland, St.
Louis, and many of
the western cities.

Miss
Ruth Sisson has
recently been elected to the Rossini Club of Portland, where she is teaching
piano and harmony. The club is one of the most active in the country and has
had an energetic life since its beginning in 1831. Many of the noted harpist,
violinists, pianists, etc, in Portland and
thereabouts are members, and fine programs are given each week by the members.
Miss Sisson was required to play before an examination committee of
twelve members.

Miss
Clifford Burroughs of
the AmsterdamCityHospital, for exceptional class and ward
work, was awarded an extra three day’s Thanksgiving vacation, which she spent
at the home of her sister in Suffern, N.Y.

Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Maynard
of Gale, N.Y. announce the engagement of their daughter, Emma Louise, to
the Rev. James S. Carney of St. John’sWaterbury, Conn.

The
engagement of Miss Merle Amelia Howk of Watertown and Harold Crary Jebo of Potsdam, has been announced. Mr. Jebo
is supervisor of music in the schools of Gardiner Maine.

Mr. and
Mrs. Charles I. Olmstead announce the engagement of their daughter, Ruth M. to Proctor
Pratt of Massena. Mr. Pratt is a former student of Clarkson college,
now connected with his father, W. L. Pratt, in the lumber and
contracting business at Massena. Miss Olmstead was a member of the
Class of 1915 at the Crane Institute.

Belle
Miller writes from
New Woodstock, NY: “I am sure no Christmas present will give me more pleasure
than did the arrival of the Normal Magazine yesterday. Enclosed you will find
one dollar for a year’s subscription”.

A renewal
subscription has been received from Priscilla E. Chambers of Hawthorne, N.Y.

Mrs.
Anna Washburn sends
a new subscription from Columbus, Kansas.

Irene
Dowling is teaching
in Fine, NY. She renews her subscription by payment in advance.

Gladys
A. Page is teaching
her third year at Good Ground, having the third and fourth grades. She says:
“I look forward eagerly to receiving each month’s copy”.

Violet
F. Lehman sends
“Best wishes for a bright and prosperous New Year,” and also her renewal check
from Mamaroneck, N.Y.

F. H. Tichenor
asked to have her
address changed to 1021
East Ocean Ave., Long Beach, Cal., and also for a statement of account. We congratulate good
friend Tichenor that he can spend his time rusticating in such a beautiful city
and yet have enough left with which to square up his eastern accounts.

Grace
Morgan Smith sends
the following cheer from 43
Spencer St., Winsted, Conn.: “Dear friends, enclosed find my check for the coming
year’s magazines. Send New Year’s greeting to one and all. Have looked for
letters from the class of 1904. Best wishes for the success of the Magazine.”

Grace M.
Utley sends her
renewal from Lynbrook, NY.

Albert
M. Shaw is still
holding down his job and making his home at 2252 Terrace Heights Ave, Los Angeles, Cal.

Alumni
Weddings:

Roth-Stallwood

The
marriage of Miss Cissie Lillian Stallwood to Theodore Richard Roth was
recently solemnized, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Jabez Stallwood,
assisted by Bishop Burt of Buffalo, in the parsonage of the FirstMethodistChurch at Oswego. The bridge was gowned in white
chiffon taffeta, trimmed with cluny lace.

The
ceremony was attended by the immediate relatives of the bride and groom,
together with many friends from Oswego and from out of town. Following the ceremony, the bridge and groom
left on an extended wedding tour, after which they will be at home at Franklin
Mass. The bride and groom are both graduates of SyracuseUniversity and the wedding is a culmination of
a romance started during college days.

Miss Stallwood is well known in Potsdam, where she was a resident during
her father’s pastorate in the local MethodistChurch.

May-Safley

Wm May,
Jr., of Knight’s Valley,
and Miss Irene Safley, of Calistoga, Cal., were married last month. Mr.
May holds a responsible store position.

Maynard-Hodge

John
Maynard, formerly
of this place, and Miss Ethel Hodge, of Watertown, were married at the home of the bride on Wednesday, Nov 24, 1915. They will reside at 805 Jay Street, Watertown.

Mr.
Maynard is a
graduate of Clarkson Tech and is engaged in State engineering work. Miss
Hodge is a former resident of Potsdam and a graduate of the Normal. Both
young people are well and favorably known in Potsdam.

Lockwood-McCall

Announcements
have been received here of the marriage of Miss Alfaretta McCall, of Milwaukee, Wis., to Dr. Harold Lockwood of this place. The marriage
was solemnized in Milwaukee Dec 22. Dr. and Mrs. Lockwood are
now on a wedding trip, after which they will make their home here, where Dr.
Lockwood has recently opened dental offices. Mrs. Lockwood is a
graduate of the Crane Institute.

Barnett-Vogt

Miss
Blanche B. Barnett, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Barnett of this village, was united in marriage to
Carl A. Vogt, of Jersey
Shore, N.J., at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Ogdensburg, Tuesday, Dec.
28, by Father Brown. Miss Ethel Byrns and Theodore Barnett, brother
of the bride, attended them. A wedding breakfast was served at the bride’s
home on Market street upon their return to Potsdam Tuesday, and they left in the
afternoon on a wedding trip to New York, Atlantic City, and Philadelphia.

Miss
Barnett was born
and brought up in Potsdam and graduated at the Normal in 1911. For the past four years
she has taught in Rome, where she met Mr. Vogt, who
is a civil engineer, graduate of LehighUniversity and an employee of the New York
Central lines.

Mr. and
Mrs. Vogt will make
their home at Jersey
Shore, N.J.

Rogers-Lyman

Miss
Mildred Lyman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Lyman, of Whippleville, and Ernest R. Rogers,
of this place, were married at the home of the bride’s parents in the
former village Tuesday evening. A large number of friends and relatives were present
at the ceremony.

The bride
is a graduate of FranklinAcademy and the PotsdamNormal School, and is popular with a multitude of
friends among the younger people of Malone and vicinity. Following her
graduation from the Potsdam Normal she was engaged as a teacher in the Malone
grades, having charge of the primary department in the RaymondStreetSchool.

Mr.
Rogers is a former
resident of Bathurst, N.B., and has recently been
connected with the Racquette River Paper Company. The couple will make their
home here in Potsdam.

Alumni
Births:

Dr. and
Mrs. Del B. Salmon of
Schenectady are rejoicing over the birth of a
daughter, born December
29, 1915.

A son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Chapin Collins, Potsdam, N.Y., Jan 2, 1916. Mrs. Collins was Miss Bernice Dupree.

A daughter,
Elizabeth Brownell, was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Wellings, Tuesday, November 30, 1915.

Alumni
Deaths:

Dr.
Charles C. Hotis

Dr.
Charles C. Hotis, 42,
fainted and dropped unconscious during a dance at a leap-year party at the Carthage
Club at 11:45 o’clock Tuesday night, Jan 4, and died a
half-hour later without regaining consciousness. Dr. Hotis was taken
from the ballroom floor and attended by Dr. H. E. Phelps, Dr. C. F. Adams, and
Dr. D. W. Belmat, who said that death was due to heart disease. Dr. Hotis
was a graduate of the PotsdamNormal school and the BuffaloDentalCollege. He was president of the Jefferson
Co. Dental Society and the Carthage Club, and was prominent in business and
social life of the village. He was born in Redwood and went to Carthage twelve years ago.

Dr.
Wm W. Dawley

Dr.
William W. Dawley, pastor
emeritus of the FirstBaptistChurch in Syracuse, and well known in Potsdam, died in his home here Tuesday. He married Miss Nettie Dayton of
this place by whom he is survived, together with two daughters and two sons.

Dr. Dawley
was a scholarly
man, a beloved pastor, an eloquent lecturer and an author of some note.

(Ed. Note)
– The editors of the Magazine sympathize with Mrs. Dawley whose class
letter, received to late for publication last month, appears this.

Ida
May Horr

The funeral
of Miss Ida May Horr, who died suddenly at her home, No. 112 Park Street, Watertown, was held Jan 7, at the Stone Street Presbyterian Church. Miss
Horr was taken ill after she arose and death followed within a few
minutes. She had taught in Watertown
twenty-five years, and at the time of her death was in charge of the fourth
grade at the CooperStreetSchool.

Louise
Stewart Horr

The death
of Louise Stewart Horr, wife of Dr. Arthur G. Ward, professor of
modern languages in the AlbanyNormalCollege, occurred at her home in Albany, Monday, December 20.

Louise Horr,
was born in St. Joseph, Mo., Oct 12, 1873, the daughter of Charles and
the late Jennie Horr of Carthage. She
went to Carthage with her parents when very young
and received her education in the Carthage schools, coming them to Potsdam and graduating from the Normal here in 1893. She then taught for several years in Clayton and Carthage when she married Dr. Ward,
who survives her, together with two children and her father. She was a woman
of great personal charm, a warm and devoted friend.

Ada MacVicar Carman

On Nov. 8th,
at her summer home in Fennville, Michigan, occurred the death of Ada MacVicar, wife of George
N. Carman of Chicago, Ill.Mrs. Carman will be remembered as the daughter of
the late Dr. Malcolm MacVicar, first principal of the Normal.

Miss Genieve
Taylor, now
teaching at the StateNormal School at Dillon, Mont. writes most interestingly of her work. She finds the plans
different than in Minnesota, for while there, she had students
for a twelve weeks course who were supposed to have been prepared for the music
before entering the Normal. In Montana she has a longer course and is expected to give them their
musical training as well as methods. She has a good orchestra and glee club in
the Normal and two small orchestras in the
public schools. She writes that the mountains are lovely and that she is
enjoying driving a Ford all over the country. She mentions a Miss
Dorchester who is teaching there, who I imagine, is a former graduate of
the Normal, Miss Dillie Dorchester.

At the
Primary section of the Wisconsin State Teachers Association, Miss Helen Foxgrover
gave a demonstration of some of the work which she is doing in the MilwaukeeNormal School. Miss Potter, who was formerly Inspector of Primary
Grades in the State, wrote a very appreciative letter regarding these
exercises. The MilwaukeeNormal School has started a class for supervisors of music and sends out
an interesting circular. Miss Foxgrover writes of their fine equipment
in the way of pianos and orchestral instruments.

Miss
Adelaide Linnell
writes from Lincoln, Maine, where she is very happy in her work as supervisor in the
schools there. The Grammar School, which has an organized league, has
purchased an Edison machine and she is trying to solve
the problem as to just how she can select the records to use to the best
advantage. Here, as in many places over the entire country, there is need of
educating the taste of the people as well as that of the children, and she
writes that she little thought, when we were discussing the question in methods
class, that she would so soon have such a problem to decide for herself. The
children are responsive and interesting to work with and such questions are
sure to be solved satisfactorily in time.

Miss Anner
Everett has been
home for a few weeks, needing rest from her work. In a letter from the
Superintendent of Schools in Johnstown, in
answer to the questions as to whether she should send a substitute, Mr.
Ackley speaks highly of her work, and while he regrets her absence, says
that if it had to be, this is a convenient time as they are having Regents
examinations. He says that she has started many good things which he will be
interested to see work out. Miss Everett expects to be back at her work
by the first of February.

Miss
Blanche Donovan, who
is now in her second year’s teaching at Millinocket, Maine, speaks of her great interest in
receiving the Normal magazine, and that every time it
comes, she promises herself to write to her friends in Potsdam, but this is the first letter that
has reached the Institute. Miss Donovan’s people have moved to Bradford, Mass., only an hour’s ride from Boston, which she feels will be a very advantageous move in every
way. She reports that the town in which she is working is a milling town, and
a very busy one, so she has a great variety of children to deal with in the
schools. The census shows an attendance of 1500 children, so she is able to
teach in all of the schools each day but not to see every grade. She goes two
days a week to the High School. A very unusual condition which she finds is
that the girls have very sweet voices and the boys are hardly able to sing a
tone. This is so unusual as to be a remarkable condition. She says she thinks
it is sort of an epidemic and it certainly seems something that is not at all
necessary. She says, ”This town affords very little high class talent for the
benefit of these growing children and since the best cannot be secured in any
other ways, I secured an Edison Diamond Disc Machine for the High School. The
other grades in the building will share its many treats and the machine will be
paid for by entertainments given by the pupils.” She is starting a lecture and
story course in connection with the recitals given through the records, telling
something of the lives and works of the musicians, and the students are most
enthusiastic. When she returned in September she found her salary had been
raised, and as she plays the organ and directs the choir in one of the
churches, her salary is increased to a very desirable figure.

This is the
second year’s work in Southampton, NY for Miss Mary Flansburg. In a letter just received, she speaks
of the difficulties they have had in their 7th and 8th grades
with children who have entered from other schools without music. They find
that it has been best to excuse those who were not musical enough to make up
the work. This is a problem that confronts teachers all over the country, and
unless there is some opportunity for grading in the classes, Miss Flansburg’s
plan certainly seems the only one that can be adopted. It certainly is not
fair to the children who are able to do advanced work, to hold them back for
the few who can gain little or nothing for themselves, while they can almost
destroy the work for the others. Miss Flansburg has just given a
cantata entitled “The Brownie’s Band” in which the children of the first six
grades were used. There were several solos sung by the children, one by a
boy in the fifth grade who had, at first, seemed quite deficient, but who has
proven to possess a charming voice. A patriotic entertainment is now in the
process of preparation. Miss Flansburg has been able to continue her
voice lessons with Prof. Hughes, who formerly taught in Utica.

Spelman
Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., has employed several of our graduates, -- Miss Estelle Wood, Miss
Minerva Hayt, and now Miss Eleanor Stevenson is there. Some Normal graduates have been in the same
school, amongst whom is Miss Brill who is still working there. Last
summer Miss Stevenson was invited to go to Maine, but eventually decided to stay at Spelman
where she is doing excellent work. There are many interesting things in
connection with the work at this school, and all who have been there have
seemed to enjoy it. Miss Stevenson sings a good deal, and all who knew
here, will remember her pleasing voice and know how much it must mean to those
who listen to her.

The
connection between the Crane Normal Institute of Music and Southern California seems to be a close one. For
several years there have been many Los AngelesHigh
School students here,
and for still longer, many of our graduates teaching in that city. Just a
present, Miss Beryl Jeter, Miss Helen Shepardson, Miss Mary Haynes and Mrs.
Olga Harrangue Sutherland complete the list, but we sometimes had several
others. Miss Maud Degan’s marriage did not take her entirely out of the
work but at present she is traveling with her husband and her work is being
divided amongst Miss Blythe, Miss Haynes, and Miss Mason who
teach at the same school.

Miss
Jeter’s work is at
the BoyleHeightsIntermediateSchool. She says they have some very fine changed voices in the
higher grades so that they have been able to do a little four-part work. They gave,
as a Christmas program, a scene in a SaxonCastle on Christmas Day. All the music
was old carols. Lines were written to connect the songs a make a play
consisting of both solos and choruses. The German and Spanish departments each
put on a scene, using the national costumes, and the whole program was given
twice, once for the schools on each side of that section of the city. Work is
now being done on “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, which will be given by the
Boy’s Glee Club in February. She is planning a Mother Goose play for
commencement but as yet has not worked it out definitely. A very interesting
plan is being tried out to give all the children of the school an opportunity
to hear the Victrola concerts. All children who have no recitation at a given
period are invited to the music room, and a different period is chosen each time.
This makes an attendance on one hundred or more at a time. At one program, the
story of “Peer Gynt” was told and Suite I played. Miss Jeter writes
that she, Olga and Helen are together often.

Calliopean
Society Notes

The regular
meeting of the Calliopean society was called on Saturday evening, January 8, by
our newly elected President, Miss Margaret Wells. The other officers
selected by the society were the following: Vice President, Ethel Hewlett; Treasurer,
Irene McLaughlin; Corresponding Secretary, Blanche Loucks; Recording
Secretary, Vera Dexter; Chaplain, Bessie Berry; Chorister, Margaret Mercer; Librarian, Ruth
McCollum. After the discussion of business a fine time was had by all.